How to customize lazygit to my needs (Please follow the description)?

[Palash90]

I am trying to mimic an ide using vim. I have made some progress with splits and panes.

Following is my .vimrc file.
set number set ruler set smartindent "set tw=60 set shellcmdflag=-ic set nocp "Take care of indents for Java. set autoindent set si set shiftwidth=4 set cinoptions+=j1 set nocompatible syntax on set cindent set tabstop=4 set expandtab filetype indent on let python_highlight_all = 1 let g:netrw_banner = 0 let g:netrw_liststyle = 3 let g:netrw_browse_split = 4 let g:netrw_altv = 1 let g:netrw_winsize = 20 augroup ProjectDrawer autocmd! autocmd VimEnter * :Vexplore autocmd VimEnter * wincmd l autocmd VimEnter * :term autocmd VimEnter * wincmd j autocmd VimEnter * :resize +10 autocmd VimEnter * wincmd x autocmd VimEnter * wincmd k autocmd VimEnter * :vert term htop -p 999999 autocmd VimEnter * wincmd x autocmd VimEnter * wincmd h autocmd VimEnter * :vertical resize -15 autocmd VimEnter * wincmd l autocmd VimEnter * :vertical resize +20 augroup END
With this, it looks like the following.

In this screen, there is htop running on the top right corner. I want that to be replaced with lazygit left pane. And when I select a file from the file explorer pane, the diff should open in the main editor pane (The middle pane).

Is it possible to achieve this?

[mark2185]

Highly unlikely, you can tell lazygit to open up the file under the cursor in a specific vim process by starting vim as a server, but I'm not sure you can specify the window.

Ultimately, I don't see the point, there are vim plugins for git interaction, such as vim-fugitive, but you can also launch lazygit in a terminal in a new tab and then open the files from there, in a new vim process. A bit nested, but if that's what you want...

I have this for that purpose:

command! Lazygit tab term ++close lazygit
nnoremap <leader>T :Lazygit<CR>

In short, maybe it's better not to try and make vim a "classic" IDE.